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rberg6868
May 4th, 2014, 02:28 PM
I do a little woodworking of my own and I really liked the work that Mike Dudek at clickypost.com does so I decided to try making a block of my own and this is what I came up with.
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I started with two pieces of walnut, one longer than the other that I glued together, then planed down. I made a couple of mistakes with keeping the holes in line but, c'est la vie.
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I overestimated the size of holes that I would need for my bigger pens so I wouldn't include the larger holes again. I realized that I had included too many of the largest holes so I cut the last row of them in half to make a kind of an architectural detail. I loved Mike's idea of a slot for my journal but I also wanted a narrower slot for correspondence or cards, that was why I made the whole piece longer.
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Mine doesn't have the kind of architectural bauhaus simplicity that Mike has designed into his but I am pretty happy with how it turned out. If you are interested you really should check his out at http://clickypost.com/the-store-1/ (No affiliation, just inspiration)
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jackwebb
May 4th, 2014, 02:37 PM
Very cool! Nice work.

Robert
May 4th, 2014, 04:30 PM
Very tastefully executed, rberg6868!

cwent2
May 4th, 2014, 07:56 PM
Very good, nice "Wood" work - the Left hand side begs the question - Why the half hole with the step?

Carl Wood

Bogon07
May 4th, 2014, 08:22 PM
Very good, nice "Wood" work - the Left hand side begs the question - Why the half hole with the step?

Carl Wood

I realized that I had included too many of the largest holes so I cut the last row of them in half to make a kind of an architectural detail.


Rberg6868, nice work. Could you make a removable rubber,plastic or whatever insert for you larger holes when you need to use them for your smaller pens.

I would suggest the "ink shelf" could do with a raised edge to stop bottles accidentally falling off if your block was bumped.

Nice set of pens too. Especially the Deltas & the Visconti.

cwent2
May 4th, 2014, 09:24 PM
Thanks Ken, I missed that line......

Cw

rberg6868
May 4th, 2014, 09:45 PM
I realized that I had included too many of the largest holes so I cut the last row of them in half to make a kind of an architectural detail.


Rberg6868, nice work. Could you make a removable rubber,plastic or whatever insert for you larger holes when you need to use them for your smaller pens.

I would suggest the "ink shelf" could do with a raised edge to stop bottles accidentally falling off if your block was bumped.

Nice set of pens too. Especially the Deltas & the Visconti.

The last of my children is on the verge of moving out of the house so the chances of it getting bumped have gone down considerably. I did consider a ledge on the far edge of the left side so that pens could lean from there into the half round hollows but I felt that the lines of the thing were already getting quite busy.

earthdawn
May 4th, 2014, 10:08 PM
Thats awesome and really well executed. Fit and finish looks pretty darn good to me.

Bravo!

caribbean_skye
May 5th, 2014, 05:10 PM
now if it only had an adjustable section for the reply to stack.

VertOlive
May 5th, 2014, 06:00 PM
Orange pens! Yes!

Oh, right, very nicely done woodwork as well, of course!

clickypost
May 6th, 2014, 11:26 AM
Great work! Love it, and thanks so much for the kind words.

Very nice collection as well!

rberg6868
May 6th, 2014, 04:48 PM
Orange pens! Yes!

Oh, right, very nicely done woodwork as well, of course!

Thank you. Yes, I love the orange pens. Especially that Dolce Vita, really the king of orange.